Chapter 57 Shame on Zhou Su, Hungry Shouyang

Food is a necessary condition for the survival of living things.

Especially in winter, food is particularly important, so many animals have evolved the skill of storing food for the winter, and some animals have evolved the skill of hibernation.

When humans evolved, they evolved these two skills.

They hibernate while storing food, especially the farther north, the more cold the people live, once the temperature drops below 10 degrees, they are basically reluctant to go out.

The Qin and Han dynasties were a special period when the temperature in China reached the cold period.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Le Yi" records that "the planting of Jiqiu is planted in Wenhuang",

"Historical Records Suoyin" explains that "Jiqiu, the land of Yan, the land of Yan, the Jiqiu of Yanyan, and the bamboo of Wang Wen".

It means that among the plants on the Yanguo Mountain, bamboo produced by the Wenshui of Qi is planted.

In addition to the fertility totem worship, there is also the possibility that the country of Guzhu was rich in bamboo at that time, indicating that the climate in the northern Liaobei region is still in the same warm period as the Central Plains.

However, in the "Hanshu Wudi Ji", it is recorded that in the fourth year of Yuanguang, "in summer and April, the frost kills the grass";

In the first year of Motokaku, "in December, heavy rain and snow, the people froze to death".

In the third year of Yuan Ding, "water ice in March, rain and snow in April, people in more than ten counties in Kanto cannibalism. “

These are all records of the cold climate in historical materials.

Zhou Xiangyong also found an extreme example in the "Continuation of the Han Book and Etiquette": "In June of the first year of Yongping, the first order of hundreds of officials was frosty."

He checked the historical chronology and found that the first year of Yongping was August 8, 58 A.D., and the beginning of August was the dog day that people say, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty asked hundreds of officials to participate in the activities of sacrificing the temple on this day, but it was frosty. This is still the case in the Central Plains, and the severe cold in the north is not difficult to imagine.

However, this kind of climate change does not change all at once, but slowly changes over a hundred years as the earth rotates.

Therefore, during the Qin Dynasty, even if it was cold in northern Liao, there was absolutely no winter at minus ten degrees Celsius in later generations.

The reason why Liaobei is called a bitter cold land is mainly because of the sparse population, backward civilization, the lack of mature warmth and cold technology, and the problem of local primitive people's cognition of food.

In the northern Liaobei region, most of the Hu people are fishing and hunting for a living, did not master the construction of the cold technology, did not master the textile clothing technology, in the winter they are mostly living in the cave to keep warm, the larger tribe may dig the 'underground palace', the cold clothing except for some Hu people have animal skins, most of the others, are leaves or naked.

Therefore, in the early years of Liaodong and Northeast China, even if the temperature was below 10 degrees in winter and above 0 degrees, a large number of people would freeze to death and starve to death in these states of being poorly clothed and hungry.

Because it is not only the reason for keeping out the cold, but also the death caused by the lack of food supply and the lack of heat intake.

In winter, the animals either migrate to the south or hibernate deep in the mountains, and the plants have already withered, so it is difficult to find food.

So another skill of people to store winter food was lit up.

The tribes near the sea unexpectedly discovered that salt could delay food spoilage, and the pickling technology became the main food source for the winter in Liaodong, so every autumn, the Donghu and Sushen people in Liaodong, and even the Fuyu people and Wofu people in further afield will enter the Liaodong region along the coastline of the Bohai Sea or the Changbai Mountain Range to find food for the winter.

This period is a natural winter granary for the primeval mountains and forests of eastern Liaodong.

And because the mountains and forests of Liaodong are too big, even such a huge ethnic group as Donghu cannot be completely controlled.

But this does not mean that the aborigines of these northeastern regions will not find that another unknown force has appeared and taken away their most important tribe.

In the face of this nomadic tribe that even the Huns feared, Wang Xu didn't think of anything that was a particularly good solution, so he could only hope that the tricks arranged by Tu Tan before would be effective.

Wang Xu asked Tu Tan to use the spies of the big tribes in Donghu to incite those big tribes to unite to plunder the Yan State, so that he could be directly involved by Wang Qian's army.

As long as the big tribes of Donghu target the war-torn Yan Kingdom, then Wang Xu will have the confidence to deal with those small Donghu tribes here.

The geographical location of Chaoge City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the city walls that are constantly being cast high are definitely not something that thousands of Donghu people who have not yet evolved to the bronze civilization can conquer.

And Wang Xu also has a secret weapon, which is a ballista.

Of course, under the current conditions, it is impossible to build such a powerful ballista with a range of several hundred meters, but it is still no problem to make some ballistas with a range of 100 meters.

Wang Xu's schematic diagram, coupled with Mo Kui's mechanism technique and Tu Shan Niangzi's iron smelting technique, had already built the ballista, but copper and iron ore had not been found to create a large number of gears and leaf springs, and mass production could not be realized.

But now that the first copper mine has been found, soon this ballista with a range of about ten meters, with a diameter of 30 centimeters thick, will shoot directly through an adult wild boar with a diameter of about 10 meters, and will fill the city walls.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower, Wang Xu would have been confident that he would be able to hold on to the city and defend a large tribe of nearly 10,000 people to attack.

Because the torsion spring is not out, the number of people who control the crossbow must reach more than six people, and if the torsion spring is made, the number of people who control the crossbow only needs three or four people.

It's still a matter of population.

Thinking of this, Wang Xu sighed.

"The Great Emperor is worried about the affairs of the Linhu tribe?" Tu Tan saw Wang Xu sigh and asked out loud.

"I've always disliked war." Wang Xu shook his head: "I'm thinking about whether I can solve this problem in other ways." ”

Tu Tan smiled, "The emperor is merciful, and it is the luck of those slave countries. ”

During the Shang Dynasty, these nomadic peoples of Donghu belonged to the slave country.

"You've had a lot of contact with Donghu, can you analyze their specific structure? I have always felt that Donghu is not a complete and unified force. Wang Xu asked with a smile.

"Donghu was originally Tufang, then Tuhe, then Shanrong, and so far Donghu." Tu Tan replied, "After Emperor Wuding destroyed the earthwork, the earthwork became a slave country of our clan, which belonged to the Guzhu country, and the eighth monarch of the Guzhu country, Yaweishi, pardoned the earthfang country and returned the clan name and clan land. ”

"And then the Turks rebelled again?" Wang Xu frowned slightly.

"After the Zhou thief usurped the throne, the monarch of the Lone Bamboo Kingdom Boyi and the Great Witch Uncle Qi led the troops back to help, but when they arrived at the Chaoge, they were unable to return to the sky, Di Xin had already immolated himself in the Chaoge City, and met Jiang Ziya's Zhou army on the way, Ji Fa asked the monarch to surrender, the monarch and the Great Wu would rather die than surrender, and finally died at the foot of Shouyang Mountain, but the Zhou army was severely defeated, and Jiang Ziya was afraid of the strength of the Guzhu country, so he borrowed Ji Fa's mouth to fabricate the matter of the monarch and the great witch 'shameful eating Zhou Su and starving Shouyang', and deceived the nine monarchs Ya Ping." Tu Tan said hatefully.

Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, he was curious that although the Guzhu Kingdom advocated the culture of etiquette and music, it was not weak militarily, first of all, as the birthplace of the Yin Shang, the last retreat of the Shang Dynasty would definitely be cultivated, and the Guzhu Kingdom was responsible for helping the Shang Dynasty guard the frontier, and if it didn't have the strength, it would have been wiped out by the northern nomads.

Therefore, although the allusion of 'shameful eating Zhou Su and being hungry for Shouyang' looks touching and full of the virtues of benevolence and brotherly humility, it actually can't resist scrutiny.

In the later literary allusions, Cai Wei mainly refers to the allusions of Bo Yi and Shu Qi, which were later adapted into "Cai Wei Song" and "Xiao Ya Cai Wei", but these are poems about war, and the allusion of the title of the book should be related to war at that time.

I don't know how it turned out to become, an allusion to the spirit of pure virtue.

Moreover, Jiang Ziya, a soldier god figure, admired Bo Yi and Shu Qi so much, which shows how tragic the war was at that time, showing not only the virtue of benevolence and filial piety, but also the gift of loyalty.

"Climb the west mountain and pick its vid. Violence is easy to violent, and I don't know what it is. Shennong Yu Xia is suddenly unscrupulous (5), am I suitable to return safely? Yu is wandering, and his life is declining! Wang Xu sighed softly.

"But when the thief Zhou Gongdan pacified the Quartet, the Guzhu Kingdom and the Tufang Kingdom repelled the Zhou army many times, and Zhou Gongdan saw that he could not attack it for a long time, so he retreated and asked for a second time, and gave the Yandi to Zhao Gongxi, who had a gap with him." Tu Tan continued.

Soon after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wu Wang Ji Fa died without completing the unification, and his younger brother Zhou Gongdan was regent, starting the road to unification.

It is no wonder that Zhao Gongxi, who was originally as famous as Zhou Gongdan, was not inaugurated after being crowned king, but was left in Haojing.

"Zhou Gongdan was afraid that the power of Zhao Gongzheng was too great, so he left him as a hostage in Haojing and sealed his family in such a remote and barren place. It is hoped that with the help of Lone Bamboo and the hand of the earth, the power of Zhao Gongzheng will be weakened. Tu Tan continued.

"But Zhou Gongdan didn't expect that Zhao Gongxiao would be able to live in peace with the Guzhu Kingdom and the Earthfang Kingdom?" Wang Xu frowned and asked.

"The son of Zhao Gongzao told a daughter to the country of Tufang." Tu Tan sighed, "So the country of the earth betrayed the country of Guzhu, under the attack of the two sides, we could only retreat to the mountains and forests, and soon the country of Yan turned around and swallowed the earth, and the king of the country of the earth fled into the mountains and forests with his cronies and surrendered again, changed to Tu He country." ”

"Then it became Shanjung, is it a rebellion again?" Wang Xu seemed to have guessed something, this earthwork has rebelled three times in a row, and it is indeed shameless enough.

"Xiyi Dog Rong, who killed King Zhou You, fled to Liaodong, and finally integrated into Tu He, named Shanrong, and then it was the Eastern Expedition of Duke Qi Huan, our Lone Bamboo, and the following three subject countries, no end, Lingzhi, Shanrong completely lost contact." Tu Tan said with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

Wang Xu squinted his eyes and looked at Tu Tan, "Tu He, it should be Tu as his surname." ”

The corners of Tu Tan's mouth twitched, and he sneered, "Emperor Mingjian." ”

"No wonder even Mo Kui wants to respect you as a slaughtering brother." Wang Xu chuckled and said, "Then dare to ask Tu He Guojun, does Shanrong have anything to do with Donghu?" ”